Customers are sprinkling symbols into their texts, and it's a challenge for banks to fine-tune systems to support the use of the cartoon code in communications.

Readers react to a drive for more public banks, weigh in the launch of an online-only bank, chime in on what millennials need and more.

The Canadian bank becomes the largest institution to implement the fintech firm’s Bank Operating System technology.

Traditional financial institutions would gain from adopting the innovative, consumer-focused mindset Amazon promotes. Hiring executives away from the e-commerce giant could help.

The field is crowded, but that’s not stopping well-established banks from trying to reach new markets by creating separately branded digital units.

Offering simple financial guidance is a great way for community banks to connect with younger consumers.

There are ways to provide a better consumer experience, even when institutions are looking to settle up on unpaid accounts.

Denizen is designed for expats and migrants to receive money and make payments without international transfer fees or currency exchanges.

The San Francisco-based online lender reported a net loss of $115 million for 2017, more than half of which was connected to warrants issued in a deal that stabilized the struggling firm.

Governments are studying ways blockchain can safeguard property records and simplify how they get tracked.

Readers react to the Senate regulatory relief bill, weigh in on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s innovation initiative, chime in on whether banks need to provide more value in a digital age and more.

Small institutions need to rethink their approach to younger employees, giving them more opportunities and responsibilities — and borrowing from their digital know-how.

The bank will enable customers to access its 2,500 ATMs via mobile banking.

Banks need to figure out how to provide more value to customers or nonbank financial services companies could displace them.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's “Project Catalyst,” launched six years ago to help fintech companies navigate regulations, has failed to deliver.

The online lender is hiring Kenneth Brause, a CIT Group executive, to succeed CFO Howard Katzenberg.

Financial agencies must prepare themselves to evaluate the practical effects of automated decision-making in lending and other programs to better detect fair-lending violations.

Citigroup plans to launch an online bank that will be marketed nationally. It is one of several large companies with an online bank or niche platform in operation or on the drawing board.

The estimated costs of recent digital glitches at BB&T, TD and Wells Fargo are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but contractual and economic realities make it hard for banks to sue vendors for the money or fall back on insurance policies.

Readers weigh in on whether or not banks should take a stand on gun control, opine on digital banking outages, reflect on banks building more branches in the internet age and more.